Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-24
Iowa Items.

tablished in 1S52-thirty five years ago.
Swarms of huge black beetles are de.
stroying the potato fields in Washington
county.
Marshalltow has appointed a com
mittce of five to bore for natural gas
They are members of the city council and
will experience no great difficulty or ex.
pense in striking vein.
Charles Armstrong, g,sixteen-yoar old son
OF w. ii. Armstrong, of Macksburg while
unhitching his team from plow In the
by lightning, and all were instantly
Killed, the horses falling on the boy.
e. G. Sterlin, secretary of the Musca.
tine Mutual Life Insurance company, in
attempting to board a passenger train at
Muscatine, Saturday afternoon, was
struck by n passing freight train and
suffered the loss of one and possibly both
feet.
Jake Gaudaur, champion oarsman Of
the world, will row in \ regatta on the
government canal at Keokuk on tie 4th
of July, and is expected to prove a draw.
ing card. Gaudaur, who is ST. Louis
man, has become famous for his recent
defeat of Hanlan, the great Canadian
Oarsman.
A burglar raided boot and shoe store
at Ottumwa Saturday night and on Sun.
day. in broad daylight broke into
clothing store, deliberately changed his
old clothes for the best suit in the house,
and was packing a number of valises
preparatory to travelling when one of the
proprietOrs appeared on the scene and
spoiled his plans, The burglar fled
hastily, but the alarm was given and the
officers soon rounded him up and lodged
him IN Jail.
Dakota.
The reported cattle plague in the Hills
has proved to be a hoax.
Natural gas, four miles from Fargo,
threw sand and dirt forty feet into the
air
on the grounds of the Vermillion uni
versity.
1t is expected that graders will shortly
follow the survey of the st. Paul. Mime
apolis d Manitoba, made from Aberdeen
to Pierre.
James Ingalls, and wife, of Edison
township, Minnehaha county, have the
banner family for south Dakota. There
are thirteen children, ten of them being
boys, making fifteen in the family.
Aberdeen has received word from Fort
Sisseton that at least 300 Indians will be
present at the Fourth of July celebration
arrangements for special rates. 1t is ex-
pected over 10000 people will be present.
Wyoming.
Real estate sales in Cheyenne last week
amounted to $95,O00.
Cheyenne wants series of excursion
trains to and from Omaha.
The work of laying street car track in
Cheyenne Will begin next week.
Large gangs of graders are at work on
the Burlington extension within three
miles of Cheyenne.
A railway between Laramie and Den.
YER is assured. The former city has
agreed to pay the expenses Of prelim
mary survey
The Wyoming Central is to push on
westward from Douglas this season.
How far is not known, but that the ad-
vance is to be made is settled by the
commencement Of the bridge across the
Platte. Fifty men went Mt work there
last week.
A valuable coal claim has been taken
up on the north side of the Platte, eight
miles above Glen Rock on Coal creek.
The vein crops out in the gulch, four feet
in thickness being exposed. A force of
men is running q tunnel, and the work
done so far shows the vein to increase in
thickness and the quality of the coal to
improve.
The saw mill men arc bowling at tho
tyranny Of the government in stopping
their raids on government land. G.. g.
p Wehel. who operated saw mill near
Douglas, ana cut his supply of timber
on Uncle Sans claim, has been ordered
by the court TO- pay into the national
treasury 81 500 damages. He has shut up
the mill